Writing in Business Weekly, Teri Willey, Chief executive of Cambridge Enterprise, the university’s commercialisation arm, says: “We’re seeing no downturn in the innovation emanating from within the university or the appetite of inventor academics keen to commercialise their bright ideas. Whatever the economic landscape...

Companies who are engaged in developing innovation processes are also likely to be involved in outsourcing significant aspects of their operations. So how do you innovate when you’ve also outsourced? Sanjiv Gossain explores the issues here

With everything going virtual, it makes a refreshing change to find a cutting edge new product that’s made of cardboard. Jenny Chapman from Cambridge Business News met Andrew Hatcher and Jill McCulloch to find out about their new planning tool for entrepreneurs and business owners looking to grow. Read more here

We’re always a bit skeptical when we read about any definitive list, whether it’s six things to improve your complexion or seven myths of innovation. So we enter with some trepidation a list for your perusal, a checklist of sorts to help you ascertain whether or not your idea can become a a successful innovation....

“Crowdsourcing is a blunt instrument,” said Robson Grieve, moderator and president of Creature, which recently redesigned the Seattle’s Best logo, resulting in quite a bit of customer reaction, similar to many recent logo changes from The Gap to Tropicana to Starbucks. Crowdsourcing encompasses a lot of...

A thought provoking piece about Stephen Wershing, CFP, appears on the financial-planning.com website. Stephen is the creator of ‘The Client-Driven Practice’, in which he proposes ‘Role Reversal, Making Your Clients Your Advisors’. While the piece is aimed at the financial planning industry, the...

‘Policymakers are desperate to promote enterprise. A new index could help’ says Schumpeter in a piece on the Economist website, which ends with, amongst other things, a plea to British policymakers to address the country’s weakness in venture capital. What supports this opinion? A new index called the Global...